New Year, New Topics
Well, here we are again. It is now 2017 and the AP Exam is now a short 3 months away. This past week, our class has been discussing our routine for the next few months. We have discussed how rhetorical terms quizzes will be set up, how vocab will work, and how each week we will write a practice essay in preparation for the exam. Last week we also discussed different types of languages and what each tongue means. We read different kinds of articles, and the one that stuck out the most to me was the one about Chicano Spanish being different from normal Spanish. I think the reason it stuck out so much for me was due to the personal connection I made with the piece. I am Romanian and sometimes in some situations I feel more comfortable speaking English than I do Romanian. Some people might take this as an insult and say I am fake to my culture, but it is simply a preference that I have developed. In Elementary School I was actually punished once for speaking Romanian on the playground because the lunch ladies thought I was swearing. The discrimination between languages is ridiculous now a days and I don't understand what the deal is. Overall, I'm kind of worried about this semester due to the weekly essays. I take a while to brainstorm and would like to have time to plan out my piece. I guess we'll see how it goes!
I definitely can agree with connecting to the chicano article. As you know, we are both Romanian and share the same culture, and were grown up with sort of the same background and morals. I really like how you explained how you can relate to that story because it made me feel the same way.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very interesting how you connected your own experiences to those of the authors of the passages we read this week. Also it's quite interesting that you feel oppositely of those authors as well, it gives a different perspective i believe.
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